Briefs: No appointment vaccines available in Marion
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OhioHealth Marion General offering no appointment vaccinations
MARION - Marion General Hospital will offer first shot COVID-19 vaccinations for walk-ins without an appointment from 8:30 am. - 3 p.m. on Wednesdays and Fridays through May 14 at the Marion Medical Campus, 1040 Delaware Ave. (Door 7 in the back of the building).
OhioHealth is currently administering the Pfizer vaccine, which can be given to individuals aged 16 and up. Vaccine recipients 16 or 17 years of age must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Adults, including guardians, must bring identification that includes name and age. Identification will be accepted that is expired or from another state or country.
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École O’Kelly School at Canadian Forces Base Shilo has 150 military children attending. Wednesday was TEAL-UP day in recognition of military children. (Submitted)
Military children quite often face challenges their peers seldom do. They’re uprooted continuously as they follow a parent or guardian’s military career across the country.
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Military children quite often face challenges their peers seldom do. They’re uprooted continuously as they follow a parent or guardian’s military career across the country. Sometimes a parent is gone on a six-month deployment (overseas). They’re away from extended family. They’re always moving between bases and they move to a different school constantly, said Shannon Chapman, youth programs co-ordinator for the Shilo Military Family Resource Centre.
Thank you for your service to the children of the men and women who serve.
April was designated to be the Month of the Military Child in 1986 by former Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger to recognize the “sacrifices and challenges” that the military child makes every day.
President Biden in his formal declaration stated, “military children did not make the choice to serve, but live each day supporting their brave parents.”
The Department of Defense estimates that over 1 million of these children have parents on active duty, and over 900,000 children have parents who serve in the National Guard or Reserve.
“Military brat” is a term often used by those of us who spent our life from birth to 18 years of age moving from one spot on the globe to another, often with little notice. Many children of active-duty parents have attended more than 10 schools since preschool and have said goodbye to more friends than most people will have in a lifetime. Many of these childre
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